Ultimate Doom: Nostalgia Zero Episode 2 "Gates to Hell" UV-Max in 24:12 (Part 2 of 2, E2M9-E2M8)

Part 1:    • Ultimate Doom: Nostalgia Zero Episode 2 "G...   Game: The Ultimate Doom WAD: nostzero.wad (by myolden) Episode 2 UV-Max (100% kills, 100% secrets, skill 4) Recorded with DSDA-Doom 0.29.4 (complevel 3) (xHUD) Text file comments: E2M9: Oh, did I dread this map. So many attempts ended here. Luckily, I had more cells than I typically did at this point and that helped mow the cacos down quickly. I have no understanding of monster behavior, so I relied on luck to make sure I had some space to move during the second half. Getting stuck between monsters with only rockets is too easy, and it's not fun six maps in. It's essential to have enough rockets to avoid flipping the yellow key switch for ammo, because having that extra baron behind you makes an already tough battle way harder. Matched the previous episode run time. It does't help that for some reason, in the latter half the monsters seem to require more rockets to go down than usual. E2M6: Having weapons make for faster routing on this map as well. It's easy to miss monsters, so I had to pay close attention to the count after each battle. E2M7: At this point, I kind of lost the plot. Lost souls, man. They drove me to play so inefficiently at the end, which isn't the sole reason I lost so much time, but it was a big factor. At this point, I had rockets so I got pretty liberal with them. If I'd kept the time of Revved's episode run, this would have been a sub-24, but 26 seconds of my gains were wiped out. E2M8: Another 12 seconds lost. I forgot to save some imps to infight one cyberdemon while I fought the other. 240 cells is more than enough to take two cyberdemons down, but I was jittery due to this being my third viable attempt of the day. Also I drank a lot of iced coffee between maps.